Senior Seminar: Week 1

Welcome to the Course

Back to the Syllabus

  • Sun Rotation 1417, Aug.–Sept. 1959 (detail), Robert Howard, Václav Bumba, and Sara F. Smith, Atlas of Solar Magnetic Fields, August 1959–June 1966. (Fig. 1.3 in Daston and Galison, Objectivity)

Synopsis

This seminar uses the methods of history and philosophy of science (HPS). What is HPS? What does it study? How might it be different from philosophy of science?

Assigned Reading

  1. Daston and Galison, Objectivity, Prologue (pp. 11–16) [5 pages]
  2. Morrow and Weston, A Workbook for Arguments, Ch. 1 (This is background reading. Skim exercises.)

By Thursday, January 21

Read: syllabus and course policies.
Annotate the Daston and Galison reading on Perusall. (This will be a sample assignment, and you only need to make one substantive annotation.)

By the end of the week

Enroll in this course on Perusall. Check your email for the course code.